Jonathan Horton
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| Full name | Jonathan Alan Horton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Jon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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December 31, 1985 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
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| Height | 5 ft 1 in (1.55 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2002–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Team Hilton Honors | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gym | Cypress Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Oklahoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Tom Meadows | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Mark Williams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jonathan Alan Horton (born December 31, 1985) is an American artistic gymnast. He is the 2008 Olympic silver medalist on high bar, the 2010 Worlds all-around bronze medalist, a two-time U.S. National All-Around Champion, and a 17-time medalist at the U.S. National Championships. In 2016 he intends to have surgery on his left rotator cuff and will not be attempting to qualify for the 2016 Olympics.
Horton began gymnastics at the age of four in 1990. "I was a wild child", Horton said, "I once climbed a pole in the middle of Target all the way to the ceiling. I used to do back flips on my parents' bed and I rode a garage door to the top when I was 3 years old."
Horton made his debut as a senior (despite still competing as a junior) in 2002 competing at the U.S. National Championships in Cleveland, Ohio where he placed first on rings and vault, placed second in the all-around and the floor exercise, and tied for fifth on the high bar. In 2003 he competed in the Winter Cup challenge, where he qualified to the individual event finals. Later that year he was chosen to compete for US at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo where the men's team won bronze and he placed fourth all-around.
He competed in both the U.S. Nationals and the Olympic Team trials in 2004, where he placed 13th. The same year he entered the University of Oklahoma. He was recruited by Iowa, Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Penn State and committed to compete for the University of Oklahoma beginning in 2004 for the 2004–05 NCAA season.
From 2005–08 he competed for the Oklahoma Sooners gymnastics team alongside his 2010 & 2011 world teammates Chris Brooks and Steven Legendre. During his time competing for Oklahoma he won 6 NCAA titles and 18 All-American honors, breaking the record that had previously been set by Bart Conner. His OU record for titles and honors still stands.
In 2005, he once again competed at the Winter Cup, placing eighth all-around and was selected again for the U.S. National Team.
At the beginning of 2006, during his Second year at OU, he won an all-around silver at the Winter Cup. He went on to compete at the American Cup where he won the all-around and rings competitions. That summer, he competed in the U.S. National Championships where he won gold on the floor, silver in the all-around and bronze on the horizontal bar. His performances led to him being chosen to represent the U.S.A. at the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus. A very young and inexperienced worlds team, they finished 13th in the qualifying rounds not making the team finals.
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